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12 Aug 2014 21:12:53
Hi guys can I have codes for sun dream league please?

04 Aug 2014 20:24:43
Radio tonite, talking about how possibly in 10 + years if the premiership keeps expanding and getting bigger globally there's a possibility top English teams could move abroad and play games overseas.

Personally I would hate to see Arsenal and any other premier league team at the time move abroad. Wouldn't be the English premier league then. Keep English teams in England think it would totally destroy the traditions of the English leagues. I no were along way off this but just wouldn't like to see it happen!

What's everyone's views on this topic? Is anyone for English teams moving abroad and playing games in America or Dubai for example?

1.) That wouldn't be a surprise, European league will happen

{Ed002's Note - Without going in to too much detail: (a) A number of clubs take the opportunity a once or twice a year to discuss various issues including changes in rules, television rights, the power of UEFA, exploitation issues for new technology streams, etc.. These discussions, the last of which were in late March in Monte Carlo, also always turn to the possibility and structure of a breakaway pan European league. Several are ex-G14 clubs, several are not, and some clubs decline involvement in such discussions. (b) The plan is that at some point a number of clubs would break away from their national leagues and UEFA. They accept that they would be banned from all existing club competition and the players would initially be banned from all FIFA competitions as well, but know that FIFA would be looking to negotiate in any case. It would be the end of UEFA in all probability and UEFA are very aware of this. It would also result in a restructuring of many of the national leagues. (c) The clubs would renegotiate their television rights, rights of distribution via other streams etc.. (d) It remains the greatest fear of UEFA and all major national authorities that one day this will happen.

There is every likelihood that the big money from television, sponsorship etc. would go with a breakaway league. It would completely rupture the operations of UEFA and I would expect it would require national associations like the FA to restructure their leagues. Nobody wants this but it is the eventual consequence I would expect. If I had to speculate, I would think (1) you might eventually see something like five or six EPL teams leave for two-tier pan European league; (2) the Premier League would be disbanded as an organisation; (3) the FA would restructure in to two 20 team divisions with lower leagues regionalised as they were many years ago; (4) FIFA would ban all players from the breakaway teams from International football - perhaps rescinding that position to stop FIFA breaking up as well. I could also see many teams lose their professional status. I would think we are probably 10 years away from any significant move at this time.

I hold a reasonably strong view in terms of the need to restructure football in Europe in any case. For me an eventual a breakaway pan-European league would force the restructuring of many of the national leagues, possibly resulting in a British league with perhaps only a couple of professional tiers and then regionalised amateur leagues below that. Financially I do not see that so many pro sides can be sustained within the sport which, like it or not, will see more and more money going in to the highest levels of the game. Governments will ensure that grassroots sport get funding but everything in the middle (Southern, Northern, Conference, Division 2, Scottish Divisions 1-3, League of Wales will not get the funding needed to continue on any sort of professional basis.}

2.) Thanks ed, very informative

3.) Cheers ED, it has to happen, the game is evolving all the time mainly due to the money being offered and the demands to watch world wide

4.) 05 Aug 2014 11:31:04
If you can find Ed002's post on a break away European League, have a read at it. Very interesting and insightful.

I highly doubt you will see the EPL being played in a different country but certainly the top teams from England playing in a European league.

5.) 05 Aug 2014 11:31:18
Wow Ed002, impressed.

Respect.

6.) 05 Aug 2014 11:32:13
And IMO it would be the beginning of the end for football, as the move towards American style games finally turns the fans away from the clubs to start their own clubs back at root level.

It's funny but as a red member most of the Arsenal games I go to see are the Champions league games, as the Saturday PL games tend to sell out quickly but CL games don't trend to sell out for quite a while, so not a good advert for a European league! At the end of the day I don't want to see Arsenal in any league where every away game would cost a fortune to go to, and you would end up having virtually no away fans and no or little local derbies, which as I mentioned, would be just like American franchised sports of today.

You would'nt get to play Barca every week, and let's be honest I wouldn't give a monkey for Arsenal versus Ajax or the like. So although Ed002 thinks it's going to happen, I really hope not, and if it does I might just find my attendance at Leyton Orient versus any other English club becoming a lot more common.

7.) Ed 2 your on fireâ€¦ great post, Thanks!

Now about Carvalho? ;-))

03 Aug 2014 15:42:55
If you could bring back any player from Arsene Wengers reign to play in are current crop of players who would u all choose and why?

1.) 03 Aug 2014 17:05:33
Viera. No explanation needed.

2.) 03 Aug 2014 17:17:55
Henry, simply because he's the best striker to play in the pl.

3.) Freddie ljungberg

4.) 03 Aug 2014 17:34:53
Henry, if you need an explanation why then you should punch yourself in the face.

5.) At the moment Patrick Viera.

6.) 03 Aug 2014 18:41:20
dido 1404, but Wilmslow has a point with PV

7.) 03 Aug 2014 18:54:33
We have been very lucky to see so many world class players under Wenger - Henry, Paddy, Freddie, Overmars, Petit, Pires, Sagna, Cesc.

But if I could bring one back, it would be one he did not buy - DB10! A DB10 that could fly!